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SkipG
May 2, 17 3:33
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Why the fuck would this change be necessary?

Old way...if I want to print a schedule at work I click on the schedule I want and press the print icon and boom I have the shit I need with one click.


New way...if I want to print the same schedule I now have to go through 5 different steps to print a fucking schedule.

Step 1...select schedule
Step 2...select a format
Step 3...export
Step 4...open file
Step 5...click print icon

Now here is the good shit...after years of just pressing the one click print icon to get a schedule out of habit, if you now decide to click the same print icon before all the other steps it will kick you out of the scheduling program and I have to log back in.

Some shit just doesn't need to be fixed! Unbelievable
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Zenmaster28
May 2, 17 4:40
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It's an attempt to make you stop printing so much by making it inconvenient.

Why do you want to kill all the trees?
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racin_rusty
May 2, 17 4:53
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He's supporting the US paper industry. #treesLivesDontMatter
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tri_kid
May 2, 17 4:59
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Every few weeks or months or years, I deal with the same BS. Some website changes and I have to input more data and info and nothing is better. I still have a hotmail account that has probably changed at least 5 times in the last 10 years, and the same goes for other accounts like Youtube or Facebook. Many might say that its the developers trying to justify their careers or contracts by tweaking a few things. I honestly think that this is a trend that will continue into the 21st century because of the mind set that "new is always better". Bah Humbug!
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JasoninHalifax
May 2, 17 5:10
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I think you meant to post in this thread....
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50+
May 2, 17 5:18
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We replaced our old cash register terminals with new ones, state of the art top of the line, it loads pages (menus) twice as slow as the old one. go figure.
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Rick_pcfl
May 2, 17 5:26
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I assume that this isn't an announced change?

Pressing a print icon shouldn't log you off and kick you out of the system - something is broke. It sounds like method 2 is really just a workaround for something that broke inside method 1. If everyone is having the same problem, the company will likely fix it. If you are the only person having the problem, it sounds like there could be a configuration that is off and causing this.

A friend once told me - "The only perfect software is obsolete."
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mck414
May 2, 17 5:59
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SkipG wrote:
Why the fuck would this change be necessary?

Old way...if I want to print a schedule at work I click on the schedule I want and press the print icon and boom I have the shit I need with one click.


New way...if I want to print the same schedule I now have to go through 5 different steps to print a fucking schedule.

Step 1...select schedule
Step 2...select a format
Step 3...export
Step 4...open file
Step 5...click print icon

Now here is the good shit...after years of just pressing the one click print icon to get a schedule out of habit, if you now decide to click the same print icon before all the other steps it will kick you out of the scheduling program and I have to log back in.

Some shit just doesn't need to be fixed! Unbelievable

That's job security for the developers.
Step 1...re-invent the schedule processing, making it worse than before
Step 2...convince leadership the new schedule printing process is better
Step 3...deploy new schedule printing process without User Acceptance Testing
Step 4...Piss off users because new schedule printing process is inefficient and worse than before
Step 5...redeploy old process, but likely get asked to refine new schedule printing process to it's better than before!
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SkipG
May 2, 17 6:02
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rick_pcfl wrote:
I assume that this isn't an announced change?

Pressing a print icon shouldn't log you off and kick you out of the system - something is broke. It sounds like method 2 is really just a workaround for something that broke inside method 1. If everyone is having the same problem, the company will likely fix it. If you are the only person having the problem, it sounds like there could be a configuration that is off and causing this.

A friend once told me - "The only perfect software is obsolete."
we just get emails saying they will be performing updates overnight. We get to come in and stumble our way through until we figure shit out.
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klehner
May 2, 17 6:27
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mck414 wrote:
SkipG wrote:
Why the fuck would this change be necessary?

Old way...if I want to print a schedule at work I click on the schedule I want and press the print icon and boom I have the shit I need with one click.


New way...if I want to print the same schedule I now have to go through 5 different steps to print a fucking schedule.

Step 1...select schedule
Step 2...select a format
Step 3...export
Step 4...open file
Step 5...click print icon

Now here is the good shit...after years of just pressing the one click print icon to get a schedule out of habit, if you now decide to click the same print icon before all the other steps it will kick you out of the scheduling program and I have to log back in.

Some shit just doesn't need to be fixed! Unbelievable


That's job security for the developers.
Step 1...re-invent the schedule processing, making it worse than before
Step 2...convince leadership the new schedule printing process is better
Step 3...deploy new schedule printing process without User Acceptance Testing
Step 4...Piss off users because new schedule printing process is inefficient and worse than before
Step 5...redeploy old process, but likely get asked to refine new schedule printing process to it's better than before!

Yeah, that's how software developers think and work. Not.
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japarker24
May 2, 17 6:36
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tri_kid wrote:
Every few weeks or months or years, I deal with the same BS. Some website changes and I have to input more data and info and nothing is better. I still have a hotmail account that has probably changed at least 5 times in the last 10 years, and the same goes for other accounts like Youtube or Facebook. Many might say that its the developers trying to justify their careers or contracts by tweaking a few things. I honestly think that this is a trend that will continue into the 21st century because of the mind set that "new is always better". Bah Humbug!

This!!! OMG!!! Every time Hotmail "updates", it gets worse. It is sooooo bad right now, I want to go back to 2002.
Pink? Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.
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klehner
May 2, 17 6:54
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japarker24 wrote:
tri_kid wrote:
Every few weeks or months or years, I deal with the same BS. Some website changes and I have to input more data and info and nothing is better. I still have a hotmail account that has probably changed at least 5 times in the last 10 years, and the same goes for other accounts like Youtube or Facebook. Many might say that its the developers trying to justify their careers or contracts by tweaking a few things. I honestly think that this is a trend that will continue into the 21st century because of the mind set that "new is always better". Bah Humbug!


This!!! OMG!!! Every time Hotmail "updates", it gets worse. It is sooooo bad right now, I want to go back to 2002.

You think that's bad? Verizon, as of tomorrow, is no longer even providing email service.

Which is good, as the UI absolutely sucked. Moved everything to gmail.

And, please, software developers aren't driving these changes that everyone abhors.
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wimsey
May 2, 17 6:58
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SkipG wrote:
Why the fuck would this change be necessary?

Old way...if I want to print a schedule at work I click on the schedule I want and press the print icon and boom I have the shit I need with one click.


New way...if I want to print the same schedule I now have to go through 5 different steps to print a fucking schedule.

Step 1...select schedule
Step 2...select a format
Step 3...export
Step 4...open file
Step 5...click print icon

Now here is the good shit...after years of just pressing the one click print icon to get a schedule out of habit, if you now decide to click the same print icon before all the other steps it will kick you out of the scheduling program and I have to log back in.

Some shit just doesn't need to be fixed! Unbelievable

As the saying goes: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
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efernand
May 2, 17 7:15
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A couple possible causes.

Most likely, someone else insisted that they needed to be able to export to Excel or an .ics file. Fortunately, that functionality was built into the reporting engine, but now you have to go through the new process.

I know with SQL Server Reporting Services, there used to be a reporting control that had to be downloaded and installed on the client to print reports. If your IT department doesn't allow clients to install anything, they can't print, so you have to export to .pdf or something and print it that way.
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